It is time for our railway to put the people who use it first - demand the government do these four things:

Reinstate the railway’s duty to cater for disabled persons and the environment
Create a publicly owned train leasing company - to stop billions being taken out of our railway in dividends
Give passengers a real voice - so that the railway is democratically accountable to us
Invest in the railway - this will enable the government to cut fares and attract more people to the railway

Transport is devolved, but this public consultation will feed into legislation that will affect the whole of the UK.

So this affects you whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Take just 1 minute to respond to the consultation now.
Ask the government to run our railway for people, not profit
https://crm.weownit.org.uk/civicrm/mailing/url
#railways #UKpolitics #inequality #nationalisation #petition

>Lawrence: Elon Musk is the biggest loser in Donald Trump's world war on economic sanity<

#Tariffs #Economics
#Inequality #Poverty

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vyI8OZVmgbc&si=Y8cRRI2l0XDq5Czj

For those of you interested in the gender pay gap (which I'm assuming is most of you/us), here is the data for the countries of the EU.

For comparison in the UK (expressed differently) the GPG is around 13% which, would make it in these terms around 87% of male pay (the UK figure is the median pay rate for both genders).

To say this is a problem that still requires work would be an understatement

#sexism #inequality
#economics

"Why does it have to be crazy people with crazy hair bringing up crazy politics that they seem to have like made up themselves a week earlier in a little meeting with four people"
LOL

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xDpnEdRXgm4

Billionaires really will blame the collapse of society on anything and everything, as long as it takes attention away from the real issue of income inequality.

(This is an old tweet, but imo still as important as ever)

Trump’s Tariffs Buck the Global Neoliberal Order — But Still Serve the 1 Percent

Trump’s tariffs threaten to widen inequality in the US, making the rich richer and impoverishing the working class.

https://voices.murica.website/c-j-polychroniou/trumps-tariffs-buck-the-global-neoliberal-order-but-still-serve-the-1-percent/

"[T]his #newRight does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - #QuinnSlobodian

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/free-markets-and-fixed-natures

#neoliberalism #inequality #USpolitics #AltRight #UShistory #SiliconValleyRight #FarRight #MontPelerinSociety #racialistRight @histodons

Could Tariffs Improve Environmental Sustainability Outcomes? https://www.byteseu.com/906225/ #consumerism #Degrowth #environment #equity #GreenGrowth #Inequality #Materialism #Subsidies #trade #trump #WorldTradeOrganization

One way to illustrate levels of inequality (albeit of income, not wealth) is to compare the daily income of the top 10% with that of the bottom 10%.... and Visual Capitalist have done exactly that (in purchasing power parity terms)....

Of course, as it shows, the poor in rich countries have more income than the rich in the poorest countries.... but this merely confirms the overall level of global inequality is worse than even that in the most unequal developed countries

"...research from the University of Greenwich... average of 35% of customer bills in 2023-2024 was ... to pay for the interest on the companies’ ever-growing debt piles, and to pay dividends to the shareholders.
You are paying a privatisation tax for the dividends and debt of these companies. Over one-third of customer bills for water in England and Wales pass straight through the companies without being used for water and sewerage services.
Publicly owned Scottish Water doesn’t have to pay dividends to private shareholders, and lost just 8% of revenue in interest payments in 2023-24: less than a quarter of the cost in England and Wales.
https://weownit.org.uk/news/governments-worst-case-scenario-for-nationalising-water-still-leaves-households-better-off/
#UKpolitics #prvatisation #nationalisation #inequality

#Neoliberalism leads to internally untenable levels of #inequality such that it ultimately gives way to either fascism or #socialism. The Democratic Party did its best to make sure socialism would never appear to be a real alternative. As a consequence, we're now getting the fascism treatment.

“But I hope the rest of us have learned a lesson from the oligarchy’s support for #Trump, even if it’s now cracking: Extreme #wealth #inequality has given great power to people who exert a malign influence on our #politics.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Political Styles of the Rich a...

“Extreme wealth inequality has given great power to people who exert a malign influence on our politics.”

#PaulKrugman on how the US got to trashing the world trading system:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/political-styles-of-the-rich-and

#Child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's #algorithm and #TikTok profits from the #content despite having policies against begging

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/06/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams

It's about time to eat the rich, no?

**AI could affect 40% of jobs and widen inequality between nations, UN warns**

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/ai-could-affect-40percent-of-jobs-widen-inequality-between-nations-un.html.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Jobs #Inequality @ai

No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality
Paul Adler
University of Pennsylvania Press

"How consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics

Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader, organizations of lawyers and experts worked "inside the system." They confronted corporate power and helped win major consumer and environmental protections. By the late 1970s, some public interest groups moved beyond U.S. borders to challenge multinational corporations. This happened at the same time that neoliberalism, a politics of empowerment for big business, gained strength in the U.S. and around the world.

No Globalization Without Representation is the story of how consumer and environmental activists became significant players in U.S. and world politics at the twentieth century's close. NGOs like Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen helped forge a progressive coalition that lobbied against the emerging neoliberal world order and in favor of what they called "fair globalization." From boycotting Nestlé in the 1970s to lobbying against NAFTA to the "Battle of Seattle" protests against the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, these groups have made a profound mark.

This book tells their stories while showing how public interest groups helped ensure that a version of liberalism willing to challenge corporate power did not vanish from U.S. politics. Public interest groups believed that preserving liberalism at home meant confronting attempts to perpetuate conservative policies through global economic rules. No Globalization Without Representation also illuminates how professionalized organizations became such a critical part of liberal activism..."

#Globalization #Activism #Inequality #Neoliberalism #AlternativeGlobalization #NAFTA #WTO

https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253177/no-globalization-without-representation/

Probably don't need to reiterate it on lefty Mastodon, but the #Trump tariffs are not so that the working class can get back something stolen from it by #globalization but so that the #rich & #oligarch class can avoid having what THEY have stolen reappropriated from them. #Protectionism may have a role in a just #economy but that isn't what this is about. It's dividing the international working class to stop it uniting against the super rich